Change IP
Hello everyone! I need to change the IP address of my site on Cloudflare CDN because of the IP blocking in my country. How can I do this, I will be very glad for your help ๐
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You CANNOT change IP address.
Contact the ISPโs that are blocking the mentioned IP addresses and have them rectify their blocks.
Such blocking by IP address will unfortunately give (sometimes severe) consequences with most CDN / hosting providers out there, as they will end up on blocking a lot of innocent websites as well.
You can eventually refer them to:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/consequences-of-ip-blocking/
There are no other options at all? Contacting Roskomnadzor will take a lot of time and effort. It is easier for me to choose another CDN. I live in Russia and here they block IP addresses and sites that use hec in droves. I very much doubt that I will emerge victorious from this fight with the Russian bureaucratic system.
There are no options to change the CDN's IP address at will, no.
If there was, the problem would add more and more IP address to these filters, literally ending up on getting all Cloudflare IP addresses blocked in the end.
It is easier for me to choose another CDN.You can always try that, however, it won't be the solution. What are you going to do, when that other CDN's IP address(es) are being blocked by Roskomnadzor as well? It will also take you a lot of time and effort, as you mentioned, to switch CDN every time Roskomnadzor is blocking (... yet another) CDN you're using.
I live in Russia and here they block IP addressesRussia isn't the only location, where IP addresses (occasionally) are being blocked though. IP addresses (especially IPv4) is unfortunately a scarce resource. Cloudflare won't get new IP addresses every now and then, just because all the others have been blocked by certain network operators.